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MODEX 2024: Slip Robotics wins Best New Innovation award for SlipBot ALR

May 16, 2024 · Slip Robotics received a Best New Innovation award from MHI at MODEX 2024 in Atlanta for its SlipBot automated loading robot.

Norfolk Southern rolls out six-point plan focused on safety operations

March 6, 2023 · Atlanta-based Class I railroad carrier Norfolk Southern (NS) rolled out a six-point plan to “immediately enhance the safety of its operations.” The company said that this plan is based on preliminary findings made by the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) after an NS train derailed…

Protecting Supply Chains Against Economic Uncertainty

November 21, 2022 · In this ebook, discover five reasons to double-down on supply chain risk management, plus how to do it.

Extending ESG Best Practices Into the Supply Chain

February 21, 2022 · This detailed white paper focuses on key topics, shifts, and the future of ESG's role in business.

Supply Chain Management in Emerging Markets: A Best Practice Guide

August 17, 2021 · To better understand the unique challenges of entering emerging markets and the secret to successful supply chain management, Avetta interviewed three top procurement, health and safety, and sustainability leaders.

Speed limiter debate starts anew with new bill controlling heavy trucks

June 8, 2021 · The latest issue in trucking is actually a renewal of a 15-year-plus battle against truckers who go too fast. It pits safety advocates and large trucking interests on one side against owner-operators, who would be pinched financially because they are paid by the mile.

Bipartisan Motor Carrier Safety Selection Act makes a case for needed upgrades

May 25, 2021 · A piece of bipartisan legislation introduced in the United States House of Representatives earlier this month by Representatives Mike Gallagher (R-WI) and Seth Moulton (D-MA) focuses on augmenting road safety through a requirement by the Department of Transportation (DOT) to enact a Safety…

New technology offering from Convoy has a sharp focus on safety

June 24, 2020 · With an eye on establishing the safest carrier network possible for its shipper customers, Seattle-based digital freight network Convoy said today it has introduced a new predictive crash model that takes a multi-tiered approach through machine learning and automation, in an effort to qualify…

‘Nuclear’ accidents send truck insurance rates soaring and carriers scrambling

January 17, 2020 · Insurance rates for trucking fleets are soaring, sending trucking executives scrambling for coverage even for some of the safest fleets in the land. The reason, according to top trucking executives and transportation attorneys, is the rise in so-called “nuclear settlements” either awarded by…

Two-year delay in entry level driving training rule ‘concerns’ trucking industry

December 27, 2019 · The trucking industry has waited at least three years for the federal government to issue standardized rules for entry-level training for truck drivers. Now it appears the industry will have to wait a couple more years for those rules to be issued.

Is Every RCRA Waste a DOT Hazardous Material?

August 28, 2018 · When you work in EHS, you learn fast that similar words and phrases often have distinct meanings and that understanding these meanings is crucial to staying in compliance.

Slow down! Feds want to put limiters on newly manufactured heavy trucks

August 29, 2016 · Department of Transportation (DOT) Secretary Anthony Foxx announced last week that the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) want to propose equipping heavy-duty vehicles with devices that limit their speeds on U.S. roadways.